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Changelog

Version 1.3.02026-09-04T12:59:54.37

Fixed: the settings screen now opens. In 1.2.0 the config screen came up blank because the city-search typeahead was hooked to a Clay event that does not exist, which threw and aborted the whole page. If you installed 1.2.0 and could not change any setting, this is the fix.

Fixed: the worldwide city search works. A second bug kept the search results from appearing even once the page loaded. Both are resolved, so typing a city name now shows matches you can tap to set the location.

Fixed: The three top icons (complications) are now evenly spaced across the face. They previously sat a couple of pixels to the left.

Version 1.2.02026-09-04T08:54:23.929

What's new in 1.2.0

- The weather location is now a worldwide city search. The settings screen has a "Search a city" box that queries Open-Meteo's keyless geocoder as you type and shows matches; tapping one sets the location and turns GPS off. This replaces the old dropdown of 23 preset cities.
- Latitude and longitude fill in when you pick a city, and you can still edit them by hand or leave "Use phone GPS" on. No account or API key needed, so the face stays free.

Version 1.1.02026-09-02T18:58:34.392

What's new in 1.1.0

Fixed building on CloudPebble. The AppMessage keys are now read from the generated message_keys.auto.h header instead of being hand-declared, so the face links under CloudPebble's pebble-tool (5.0.39) as well as the local SDK. The face itself is unchanged.
Bundled the 25x25 menu icon (IMG_MENU_ICON) used by the appstore listing.

What's new in 1.0.1

Weather icons redrawn: a uniform 3px outline and rays on the sun; overcast (WMO code 3) now shows a plain cloud with no sun; the clouds have a scalloped, rounded bottom instead of a flat edge.
The weekday word is now set in the bundled LECO 1976 Regular (Samuel Čarnoký / CarnokyType), so it matches the segmented LECO numbers instead of the system Gothic fallback.
The battery icon was resized to sit level with the other icons and to read its charge fill clearly; all three top icons are now the same size.
The icon + label group is vertically centred in the top block.
Store screenshots regenerated on the polished face.

1.0.0!

First release of the Aura Essential watchface for the Pebble Time 2 (Core Devices).

It is a digital face in three blocks after the classic Essential layout: a top block with three configurable complications (steps, heart rate, battery, day of the week or weather), a large clock centered in a white band, and a color strip below. Every block colour, the separator and the clock font are configurable from the settings screen, and the weather complication pulls live conditions from Open-Meteo through the phone.

Inspiration

This face is my homage to Essential by Kiezel, one of my favourite watchfaces on the original Pebble and Pebble Time, the Kickstarter watches I backed, bought and gifted a few of. Essential has been on the appstore since 2015 and unmaintained since 2016, so I rebuilt its three-block idea from scratch for the Time 2: white-icon complications with a black outline over a color block, a large segmented clock in a white band, and a colour strip below. The step-count shoe icon is reproduced from Kiezel's original; credit and thanks go to its developer. All the code here is my own.